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Example sentences for "sepulchre"

Lexicographically close words:
septs; septum; sepulcher; sepulchers; sepulchral; sepulchres; sepulchrum; sepulcre; sepulcro; sepulture
  1. The time that he spent in Spain was, at his first going into Italy, designed for travelling to the Holy Land, and for viewing Jerusalem and the Sepulchre of our Saviour.

  2. The Burial of Moses "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

  3. There is nothing of which she is more desirous than the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre to the Christian powers.

  4. In the lost battle borne down by the flying,' his sepulchre may have been the maws of kites.

  5. Within the new sepulchre was placed a writing referring to the finding of the bones by Edward and Eleanor, and attested by many witnesses whose names are still to be read in the pages of Leland.

  6. He cometh then with them toward the chapel, that was right fair and had a right rich sepulchre therein.

  7. Lords, in this sepulchre was placed the body of Merlin, but never mought it be set inside the chapel, wherefore perforce it remained outside.

  8. The sepulchre of Christ is not in Palestine!

  9. There were Holy Wars of old, in which it was glory enough to die; wars in which the one aim was to rescue the sepulchre of Christ from the hands of infidels.

  10. The sword of its last lord, that I may bear it to the Holy Land in his name, and lay it on the Holy Sepulchre of our Lord.

  11. He sang of the captivity of Jerusalem under her Saracen rulers; of the Holy Places, nay, of the Sepulchre itself, in the hands of the heathen.

  12. The colour of the said tomb and sepulchre is white and red mingled together.

  13. The place of the sepulchre is a wooden monument, made like a little house, covered, having a hole in the wall, through which those that go thither for devotion are wont to put in their hand and take out some of the dust.

  14. These, therefore, must have been the blessed spirits of those Christian warriors, come to fulfil their vow of pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.

  15. Had I been he, or he been I,” said the haughty potentate, “I would rather have made this Alhambra my sepulchre than have lived without a kingdom in the Alpuxarra.

  16. The sepulchre erected in the cloisters of the convent of San Domingo, was achieved at the expense of the Moor Abadil, as a feeble testimony of his grief for the death of the good knight Don Munio, and his reverence for his memory.

  17. The body of the king was interred in a superb sepulchre of white marble; a long epitaph, in letters of gold upon an azure ground, recorded his virtues.

  18. They greeted no one, nor looked either to the right or to the left, but entered the chapel, and kneeling before the sepulchre of our Saviour, performed their orisons in silence.

  19. His body was embalmed, enclosed in a silver coffin, and buried in the Alhambra in a sepulchre of precious marble, amidst the unfeigned lamentations of his subjects, who bewailed him as a parent.

  20. A whited sepulchre is a very picturesque object, and I like it immensely, and I like a Sim too.

  21. But the whited sepulchre is an acknowledged humbug and most of the Sims are not, in my opinion, very far different.

  22. The world is not a whited sepulchre to her.

  23. Personally, I like Cornpepper; he is the only fellow who has the courage of his want of principles in this whitewashed sepulchre of a country.

  24. There is no use in arguing with a man whose mind is disturbed by waxen images placed at his own door, or on the sepulchre of his father or mother, or at a spot where three ways meet.

  25. The Holy Sepulchre itself is claimed and held by the Greeks, and every Easter thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the world worship at its shrine.

  26. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the chief place of interest in Jerusalem.

  27. Six persons had been found in this fetid sepulchre at one time, and with one only able to crawl to the door to ask for water.

  28. And into this noisome sepulchre living men, women, and children went down to die; to pillow upon the rotten straw, the grave clothes vacated by preceding victims and festering with their fever.

  29. The Magnesians possess a splendid sepulchre of Themistocles, placed in the middle of their market-place.

  30. Attended by these men, Zaga called on the pacha of Jerusalem to pay his respects, and in the same style honoured with his presence, during Holy Week, the ceremonies performed at the Holy Sepulchre by the Christians.

  31. For a full account of the exquisite sepulchre of Shaikh Salîm, see E.

  32. But the musician must really have become a Musalmân, because his tomb stands close to the south-western corner of the sepulchre at Gwâlior of Muhammad Ghaus, an eminent Muslim saint.

  33. The reclining statue of Ximenes, beautifully carved in alabaster, now ornaments his sepulchre in the College of St. Ildefonso.

  34. First ye may see his sepulchre in the monastery of Glastonbury.

  35. I woll yat, as soone as I am trespassed oute of this worlde, ye take my harte oute of my body, and embaume it, and present it to the Holy Sepulchre at Jeruslem, saying my bodie can nat come.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepulchre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.